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<h1 class="topictitle1">Minimum Permissions for Users Performing VMware Virtualization Environment Registration</h1>
<div><p><a href="#vmware_gud_0093_0__table840017133810">Table 1</a> lists minimum permissions for users performing virtualization environment registration for VMware resource protection. The following part uses VMware 7.0 as an example. For other versions, permission setting methods may be different, but the permission requirements are the same.</p>
<div class="note"><img src="public_sys-resources/note_3.0-en-us.png"><span class="notetitle"> </span><div class="notebody"><p>VMware user permissions must be added on vCenter. Otherwise, VDDK initialization will fail. For details, see <a href="vmware_gud_0099_1.html">What Can I Do to Add User Permissions on vCenter?</a>.</p>
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<div class="tablenoborder"><a name="vmware_gud_0093_0__table840017133810"></a><a name="table840017133810"></a><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="vmware_gud_0093_0__table840017133810" width="100%" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><caption><b>Table 1 </b>Minimum permission requirements for VMware users</caption><colgroup><col style="width:44.6%"><col style="width:55.400000000000006%"></colgroup><thead align="left"><tr><th align="center" class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="44.6%" id="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.1"><p><strong>Permission Category</strong></p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><ul><li>Migrate powered off virtual machine</li><li>Migrate powered on virtual machine</li><li>Assign virtual machine to resource pool</li><li>Query vMotion</li></ul>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="44.6%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.1 "><p>Host - Local operations</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><ul><li>Reconfigure virtual machine</li><li>Create virtual machine</li></ul>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="44.6%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.1 "><p>Host - Configuration</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><p>Storage partition configuration</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><p>Create folder</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><p>Assign network</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><p>Add virtual machine</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" align="left" valign="top" width="44.6%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.1 "><p>Cryptographic operations</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><p>Direct Access</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><ul><li>Disable methods</li><li>Enable methods</li><li>Licenses</li><li>Log event</li><li>Manage custom attributes</li><li>Set custom attribute</li></ul>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><p>Configure a datastore cluster</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><p>Change Configuration</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="44.6%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.1 "><p>Virtual machine</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><p>Edit Inventory</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" align="left" valign="top" width="44.6%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.1 "><p>Virtual machine - Guest operations</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><ul><li>Guest operation modifications</li><li>Guest operation program execution</li><li>Guest operation queries</li></ul>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="55.400000000000006%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.3.1.2 "><ul><li>Guest operating system management by VIX API</li><li>Power off</li><li>Power on</li></ul>
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